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Object Number
67-24-10/643
Display Title
Esquimo knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Knife, metal blade nailed to carved bone handle, carved finger grips, drill inde
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Northwest Territories
Additional Geographic Terms
Anderson River
Materials
Bone, Metal
Dimensions
Overall: 12 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm (4 3/4 x 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
643
Provenance
Collector
Robert MacFarlane
(?)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1868)
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